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The Sun of Reality is one Sun, but it has different dawning places, just as the phenomenal sun is one although it appears at various points of the horizon. During the time of summer the luminary of the physical world rises far to the north of the equinoctial, in spring and fall it dawns midway, and in winter it appears in the most southerly point of its zodiacal journey.
Pedgift Senior helped himself to a pinch of snuff, and held it calmly in suspense midway between his box and his nose. "You can horsewhip a man, sir; but you can't horsewhip a neighborhood," said the lawyer, in his politely epigrammatic manner. "We will fight our battle, if you please, without borrowing our weapons of the coachman yet a while, at any rate."
But you have seen her?" "Yes; I have but this moment left her. Come this way." I drew Mrs. Ashleigh back into the garden, along the old winding walk, which the shrubs concealed from view of the house. We sat down on a rustic seat where I had often sat with Lilian, midway between the house and the Monks' Well.
It seemed befitting that the centenary of His ascension should occur at the midway point in the process, endowing the meetings, for Bahá’ís, with spiritual meaning beyond merely their stated goals.
Perhaps it was natural that these thoughts frequently turned upon his enemies, the hippopotamuses, and that he should consider many ways of capturing them. Finally he completed his plans, and set about digging a great pit in the ground, midway between two sharp curves of the river.
One "tiger" only indeed was left, run by a round-shouldered crouching creature whom Bob Berkley now at Hale's solicitation a policeman and known as the Infant of the Guard dubbed Caliban. His shanty stood midway in the Gap, high from the road, set against a dark clump of pines and roared at by the river beneath.
A thick mist had risen all around, and they were midway between two batteries British and German engaged in an artillery duel. The crash of the guns and the scream of the shells overhead filled the darkness with terror.
This was news indeed, and I waited eagerly for further information. 'Yes, sir. I'm sure of it. I don't doubt it; and it was in Midway Plaisance. 'Go on, Dave. 'Well, it's a short story. I had been lounging around the big wheel for some time that monster has a sort of fascination for me; it makes me feel like a small boy, unable to gape enough.
Yet the messengers Thorhild had hastily despatched had brought back nearly a score of chiefs and their families; and what with their additional attendants, and Leif's band of followers, and Eric's own household, there were few empty places along the walls. According to custom, Eric sat in his high-seat between two lofty carved pillars midway the northern length of the hall.
And up through the very midst of it all, midway between the two small windows which lighted the opposite ends of the attic, rose the huge gray stone chimney, like a massive backbone to the body of the house. What stories of the past the old chimney could have told! What descriptions of Hapgoods, long dead, who had warmed themselves about it! What secret papers had been burned in its wide throat!
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